One thing I enjoyed that blended a hobby with programming-adjacent skills: building a homelab. You can mess around with hosting things on a raspberry pi or go n

One thing I enjoyed that blended a hobby with programming-adjacent skills: building a homelab. You can mess around with hosting things on a raspberry pi or go nuts with rackmounted servers, but I’ve had a lot of fun with it. The more in-depth knowledge you can gain around things like networking and DNS and system administration has helped me a lot in understanding and manipulating the environment my code runs in at my job.